Episode notes
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why indigo is secretly incredibly fascinating.
Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.
LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:
- Katie Goldin on Bluesky
- @ProBirdRights on Bluesky
- ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
- When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)
RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
- native-land.ca
- U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
- The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
- “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
- Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
- Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)
RESEARCH SOURCES:
- The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel
- Blue: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau
- The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair
- Plant of the Month: Indigo (JStor Daily)
- Early pre-Hispanic use of indigo blue in Peru (Science Advances)
- Earliest Evidence of Indigo Dye Found at Ancient Peruvian Burial Site (Smithsonian Magazine)
- Cybistax antisyphilitica — “yangua” (Royal Botanical Gardens Kew)
- What makes the Bayeux Tapestry an embroidery? (Bayeux Museum)
- Newton’s prism experiment (University of Oxford “Cabinet” blog)
- True or false? Ten myths about Isaac Newton (Oxford University Press blog)
- Robert Boyle: Known for his law of gases, Boyle was a 17th-century pioneer of modern chemistry. (Science History Institute Philadelphia)
- Why are there seven colours in a rainbow? (New Scientist Magazine)
- Greek Internet Grammar: breathing marks and the letter ‘H’ (University of Lethbridge)
- How the Greeks Influenced Our Alphabet (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
- Two names, one nation: The origins of ‘Bharat’ and ‘India’ (IndiaToday.in)
- Bitesize: Who were the Indus people? (BBC)
- Encyclopedia Britannica entry for Scylax Of Caryanda, Greek explorer
- Should You Buy That Cheap IndiGo Airlines Ticket? (Travel And Leisure)
- The Blue That Enchanted the World (Smithsonian Magazine)
- How did the slave trade end in Britain? (Royal Museums Greenwich)
- Champaran Satyagraha (MKGandhi.org)
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A weekly podcast about the history, science, lore and surprises that make everyday things secretly incredibly fascinating. Hosted by comedy writer, emoji creator, and ‘Jeopardy!‘ champion Alex Schmidt. Join Alex & his co-host Katie Goldin for a joyful deep dive into seeing the world a whole new way!
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